copy
noun
an imitation, reproduction, or transcript of an original.
were copying
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past progressiveof copy.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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By the spring of 2018, homeowners were copying D.C. government agencies on emails to the developer asking that they take a closer look at ongoing structural issues.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2021
He also said the lawyers filed a "copy and paste" complaint lifting allegations from other Trumpworld lawsuits and should have realized "the lawsuits from which they were copying had failed."
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2021
By the time he left Vail in 2006, competitors were copying his strategy.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2021
The similarities between the tweets, she said, may have been because ambassadors were copying each other.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2019
That would look ridiculous—as if they were copying Kinloch, even though it was the other way around.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
